| 单词 | patience |
| 释义 | pa·tience I. 1. a. < patience, like charity, is long-suffering and kind. It is, moreover, the most practical of the virtues — Irwin Edman > < patience as well as courage — if there be any difference between them — is a necessary mark of the liberal mind — John Dewey > b. < he conducted himself with patience and tact, endeavoring to enforce the laws and to check any revolutionary moves — W.E.Stevens > c. < patience is the capacity to endure all that is necessary in attaining a desired end … patience never forsakes the ultimate goal — Margaret Kennedy > 2. obsolete 3. also patience dock 4. chiefly Britain Synonyms: < endured with smiling patience — Lafcadio Hearn > < by his patience in reading manuscript and proofs — E.A.Armstrong > < twigs, which he carried to his room and later with great patience wove into the form of a basket — Sherwood Anderson > < the calm and infinite patience of those who have no ambition — G.S.Gale > long-suffering (or long-sufferance) and longanimity imply extraordinary patience under provocation or trial; long-suffering sometimes suggests undue meekness or submissiveness; longanimity more often designates the virtue rather than the capacity of enduring < the earliest heroines in English literature were long-suffering creatures. They were subjected to constant masculine persecution — F.A.Swinnerton > < the long-sufferance of the army is almost exhausted — George Washington > < the attitude of the officials towards him was one, at first of amused tolerance, then of bored longanimity, and finally … of irritation — George Antonius > forbearance adds to long-suffering the implication of restraint in expression of feelings or in exaction of penalties, connoting a tolerance of what merits censure < her forbearance with her incorrigible husband — Willa Cather > < he dwelt on his forbearance, on the concessions which he had offered — J.A.Froude > < show great forbearance in the face of insult > resignation implies submission to or acceptance of suffering, often connoting stoicism or fatalism < most readers either positively enjoy the snobbery columns of their newspapers, or else accept them with resignation, as part of the established order of things — Aldous Huxley > < we need resignation to learn to live in a world that is not formed just for our comfort — M.R.Cohen > < notable for their endurance, capacity for suffering and resignation — W.C.Huntington > II. intransitive verb archaic transitive verb obsolete |
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